Passenger door not shutting

[keith24]

Occaisionally my Chim's passenger door wont shut - the striker hoop appears to hit the latch mechanism. If I move the latch manually with a screwdriver it appears fine. It most embarrassing to sit with the door open

How do you correctly adjust the hoop ?

I've read through the bible and no clues given.

[K4TRV]

keith24 said:

Occaisionally my Chim's passenger door wont shut - the striker hoop appears to hit the latch mechanism. If I move the latch manually with a screwdriver it appears fine. It most embarrassing to sit with the door open

How do you correctly adjust the hoop ?

I've read through the bible and no clues given.

Check the opening "knob" and the cable, pull back the carpet at the side of the passenger seat (rear of door), and ensure you have some "slack". That is, twist the knob to open the doos and ensure when you let go the cable resumes it's closed position - ready to secure the door when closed. Most likely to be a sticky cable.

Trev

[MADMAX2]

i had this a while back firstly just push down lightly on the door and shut it.. it should shut ok the just adjust the striker downwards to suit

[TravelsVeryRapid]

keith24 said:

Occaisionally my Chim's passenger door wont shut - the striker hoop appears to hit the latch mechanism. If I move the latch manually with a screwdriver it appears fine. It most embarrassing to sit with the door open

How do you correctly adjust the hoop ?

I've read through the bible and no clues given.

Do you mean that when you slam the door it just bounces back? If so I had the same problem a while ago after having a chassis replacement, stangely it was only a problem when the car had been used or the engine was warm. If you look at the striker hoop attached to the door you will see it is packed out with spacers. I was advised to add another spacer, taking care when loosening the two alum screws because they went into a plate and if that went out of alignment it would mean removing the door trim. As I didn't want to chance that I loosened the two alum screws and cut four pieces of copper that were about the same thickness of the spacers and placed them in the four corners and that did the trick.

Hope this helps.

Edited by TravelsVeryRapid on Monday 27th October 11:29

[keith24]

ok thanks all.

Sounds like a couple of you have had exactly the same as me. I'll try lightly pushing down on the door and then the additional spacer trick. I have had a look at the cable and it has some free play.

I'll just wait till it warms up a bit outside